Golf tournament for golf club professionals and teachers
This article is about the golf tournament for American golf club professionals and teachers. For the similar British and Irish tournament, see PGA Professional Championship (Great Britain and Ireland). For the major championship for professional golfers, see PGA Championship. For the PGA Tour's championship event, see Tour Championship.
The PGA Professional Championship is a golf tournament for golf club professionals and teachers who are members of the Professional Golfers' Association of America. It has been held by the PGA of America since 1968, when touring professionals split off to found the PGA Tour. It was known as the PGA Club Professional Championship until 2006 and as the PGA Professional National Championship from 2006 through 2015
Sam Snead and Bob Rosburg are the only players to win a major championship and the PGA Professional Championship. Bruce Fleisher and Larry Gilbert each would go on to win a senior major. Several other winners have had PGA Tour careers, either before or after winning the championship. The first edition in 1968 was held in early December in Scottsdale, Arizona.[1][2]
The leading 20 players in the event receive an entry into that year's PGA Championship. The winner gets six exemptions into the PGA Tour for the next season, three of which must be opposite The Open Championship or World Golf Championship events. The top five finishers are also given entry into the second round of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament.
Although the event gives invitations to the men's PGA event, women are eligible to compete. Those who have made the 36-hole cut include Suzy Whaley (2005) and Karen Paolozzi (2016). Paolozzi placed inside the top 20 in 2016, but was not given entry due to the "Whaley Rule," where women must play from the same tees as the men during both the sectional and national tournaments.
^"Sports-in-brief". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 9, 1968. p. 2B.
^"Fraser wins 1st meet for club pros". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press. December 9, 1968. p. 3, sec. 6.
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